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- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 8, 1908, and President Eliot’s choice for its first dean — a young Harvard economist named Edwin F. Gay — was confirmed that day. The following fall, 24 candidates arrived ready to pursue a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
digital technology to augment and expand their offerings. Guiding Small Business Owners Zoe Cullen, Mike Luca, and Chris Stanton, working with several MBA students and Harvard economist Ed Glaeser, created a guide for small business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in northern Italy as a term of contempt for the political economists and legal reformers Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them in their home, meeting their family.” That human connection, she says, is often valued above the financial incentive in Cuba. Gordon gives an example: When hiring a group of economists from the University of Havana for a consulting... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
regenerating our deprived communities, improving financial inclusion, and realizing the potential of our disadvantaged youth.” Described by The Economist as “the compassionate capitalist,” Cohen is happy to say he’s not alone. “Just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
view. Born in England and trained as an economist at Cambridge University, he moved to Brussels to work with the European Commission, the governing body of the newly formed European Union. He later became EU director of Transatlantic... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun (left) and Professor Leemore Dafny (right); image by John Ritter Professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School, Djelic met View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business can get a loan.” Small Businesses Strengthen US Supply Chains The current global supply chain back-up underscores the importance of valuing and fostering small manufacturers and service providers. Referencing her work (see below) with View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Business Policy area, are economists with particular expertise in competitive strategy. Professor Stephen P. Bradley, who heads the unit, is enthusiastic about the group's influence: "We are at the forefront of our field," he says, "doing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial markets worldwide. At 53, he is the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
says Schmitt. "It's been a special year. Everything we've done has had some 75th anniversary component." Celebrations kicked off last May with the club's first signature event—a fireside chat on "The Future of Dallas," featuring Cullum Clark, an urban View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
guide than certain other disciplines that are sometimes regarded as more rigorous, like economics, for example. Economists with their more mathematical approach to social science conspicuously failed to anticipate this crisis, whereas a... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
of activities celebrating its 75th anniversary, the HBS Club of Dallas recently presented a fireside chat on “The Future of Dallas,” with Cullum Clark, an urban economist and thought leader on the future of cities. Van Sheets (right),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
and John Maynard Keynes, who was a British economist and one of the leading economic thinkers of the time. Despite their differences, their assessment was remarkably similar; that is, how odd it was that there was no shortage of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
comes from headlines we’ve seen this year. The Economist ran a cover story on the supposed new majority standing of women in the professional workforce with a picture of Rosie the Riveter and the headline “We Did It!” The Atlantic... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
“Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election,” Professors Rawi Abdelal and Rafael Di Tella examine the shifting media landscape and geopolitics that contributed to this moment. Di Tella is an economist who has studied Latin American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an View Details